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Date:      Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:18:11 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
To:        kwhite@site.uottawa.ca
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: UMA: Increase vm.boot_pages on Dell R920 r279210
Message-ID:  <1A6D6059-21A2-467C-979D-E413623753FD@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <54997.66.186.85.232.1427195954.squirrel@courriel.site.uottawa.ca>
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On Mar 24, 2015, at 04:19, kwhite@site.uottawa.ca wrote:
>=20
> I'm using /boot/loader.conf. Is there another place I should be doing =
this?

No, that's correct, but apparently there's a problem: the RDTUN sysctl =
is not picked up early enough.  Can you try this patch?  I haven't =
really tested it. :-)

diff --git a/sys/vm/vm_page.c b/sys/vm/vm_page.c
index 79665ba..a764788 100644
--- a/sys/vm/vm_page.c
+++ b/sys/vm/vm_page.c
@@ -134,8 +134,9 @@ long first_page;
 int vm_page_zero_count;
=20
 static int boot_pages =3D UMA_BOOT_PAGES;
-SYSCTL_INT(_vm, OID_AUTO, boot_pages, CTLFLAG_RDTUN, &boot_pages, 0,
-       "number of pages allocated for bootstrapping the VM system");
+SYSCTL_INT(_vm, OID_AUTO, boot_pages, CTLFLAG_RDTUN | CTLFLAG_NOFETCH,
+    &boot_pages, 0,
+    "number of pages allocated for bootstrapping the VM system");
=20
 static int pa_tryrelock_restart;
 SYSCTL_INT(_vm, OID_AUTO, tryrelock_restart, CTLFLAG_RD,
@@ -349,6 +350,7 @@ vm_page_startup(vm_offset_t vaddr)
         * Allocate memory for use when boot strapping the kernel memory
         * allocator.
         */
+       TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("vm.boot_pages", &boot_pages);
        new_end =3D end - (boot_pages * UMA_SLAB_SIZE);
        new_end =3D trunc_page(new_end);
        mapped =3D pmap_map(&vaddr, new_end, end,
@@ -443,7 +445,7 @@ vm_page_startup(vm_offset_t vaddr)


--
Rui Paulo






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